Surprising Sugar activity ideas 5-7

Join us to find out everything you always wanted to know about sugar. Inspire your class to learn more about sugar with our cross-curricular activities. Choose from a selection of topics aimed at 5 to 7-year-olds including mathematics, science and spoken language.

Lesson highlights:

Curriculum

England

Spoken language

  • Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge. 
  • Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary. 
  • Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments. 
  • Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas. 

Mathematics

  • Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure mass to the nearest unit using measuring vessels. 

Art and design

  • To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. 

Design and Technology

  • Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes. 
  • Understand where food comes from. 

Science

  • Observing closely, using simple equipment. 
  • Performing simple tests. 
Scotland

Spoken language

  • I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by responding to and asking different kinds of questions. 

Mathematics

  • I can estimate how heavy an object is and then weigh it using appropriate instruments and units. 

Art and Design

  • Inspired by a range of stimuli, I can express and communicate my ideas, thoughts and feelings through activities within art and design. 

Design and Technology

  • I experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing simple healthy food and drinks. 
  • I explore and discover where foods come from as I choose, prepare and taste different foods. 

Science

  • Through exploring properties and sources of materials, I can choose appropriate materials to solve practical challenges. 
Wales

Spoken language

  • Listen and respond appropriately and effectively with growing attention and concentration. 
  • Extend their vocabulary through activities that encourage their interest in words. 

Mathematics

  • Compare and order two or more objects in terms of mass by direct observation. 

Art and Design

  • Explore and experiment with a variety of techniques and materials. 

Science

  • Find out by exploring and experimenting. 
  • Making observations and measurements and keeping records. 
Northern Ireland

Spoken language

  • Express thoughts, feelings and opinions in response to personal experiences, imaginary situations, literature, media and curricular topics and activities. 
  • Present ideas and information with some structure and sequence. 
  • Devise and ask questions to find information in social situations and across the curriculum. 

Mathematics

  • Know and use the most commonly used units to measure in purposeful contexts. 

Art and Design

  • Explore the visual elements of colour, tone, line, shape, form, space, texture and pattern to express ideas.